E: unable to crorrect problems, apt-get install nodejs

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Trying to install npm on Elementary OS but it gives me the following error, any suggestion on how to resolve this???

The following packages have unmet dependencies: 

npm : Depends: nodejs but it is not going to be installed

    Depends: node-abbrev (>= 1.0.4) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-ansi but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-archy but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-block-stream but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-fstream (>= 0.1.22) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-fstream-ignore but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-github-url-from-git but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-glob (>= 3.1.21) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-graceful-fs (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-inherits but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-ini (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-lockfile but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-lru-cache (>= 2.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-minimatch (>= 0.2.11) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-mkdirp (>= 0.3.3) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-gyp (>= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-nopt (>= 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-npmlog but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-once but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-osenv but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-read but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-read-package-json (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-request (>= 2.25.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-retry but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-rimraf (>= 2.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-semver (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-sha but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-slide but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-tar (>= 0.1.18) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: node-which but it is not going to be installed
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1 Answers

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  1. sudo apt-get update
  2. sudo apt-get install npm
  3. sudo apt-get install nodejs

However, You may not be able to install the latest version of nodejs via apt and also, it will be hard, if you want to switch between the node versions.

I would recommend, using NVM(Node Version Manager)

Installing node using NVM:

  1. wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.1/install.sh | bash
  2. source ~/.bashrc
  3. nvm install <node-version-you-want-to-install>

For more information on NVM, see: https://github.com/creationix/nvm